Should Shakespeare Be Censored?
It's not just "The Merchant of Venice" that disturbs today's actors and audiences.
After Robin Williams's Suicide, Brian Copeland Revives His Show About Depression
Comedian Brian Copeland decided not to kill himself and made a one-man play about the experience; then things got funny.
Word For Word Theater Brings Alice Munro's Stories to Life on Stage
Word For Word lives up to its name, bringing short stories to the stage
Talking Pictures
Performances have included an all-black "Reservoir Dogs" and an all-female "Glengarry Glen Ross."
Remembering Carl Djerassi: Playwright, Chemist, Birth Control Pioneer
Friends, family and colleagues remember the "Father of the Pill" as a writer and teacher who occasionally liked to rap.
Jury Selection Begins in Colorado Movie Theater Shooting Trial
9,000 potential jurors received a summons, "one of the largest pools in American history."
Courtney Love Stars in an Avant-Garde Opera
"Kansas City Choir Boy," a Greek tragedy of sorts, is based on a true story.
Fighting With Guerrilla Theater After the Death of Eric Garner
Douglas Turner Ward's Negro Ensemble Company mentored Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson, and helped create black activist theater
Pantomine Has Never Been So Outrageous – Or So Popular
Sexual inuendo, dreadful puns, absurd costumes - for many British families it would not be Christmas without panto
Live and Onstage, the Supremes!
After making theater from Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Andy Kaufman, New York's Elevator Repair Service is on the top court's case.
Double Take: Broadway's 'Side Show' Is a Freakish Romp
Film director Bill Condon, of 'Gods and Monsters' fame, continues pop culture's rekindled interest in the circus freak shows of yore.
The Columbine Shooters, Downstage Center
A new play draws from the shooters' journals, letters and home videos to try to spur discussion about school violence. Some Columbine families are furious.
Sex, Drugs, and Ronald Reagan: 'This Is Our Youth'
Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson, and Kieran Culkin go back to the eighties in their Broadway debuts, starring as privileged New York teenagers in Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth.
Say Yes to Anna Gunn's 'Sex with Strangers'
'Breaking Bad's' Anna Gunn knocks them dead in this off-Broadway drama directed by David Schwimmer
In on the Joke
Broadway audiences are lapping up plays by Harold Pinter, England's cryptic master of comic menace
Sex, Lies, and Class Politics Set to Music
Andrew Lloyd Webber's indignation at the scapegoating of Stephen Ward 50 years ago inspires a hit stage musical about the Profumo Affair.
True-Life Drama: The Women of Syria Play the Women of Troy
Women escaping the Syrian civil war act out the horrors of their lives.